St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-15
What the Wives and Daughters Of Newly
Elected Members of Congress
Must Do.
Hrs. Lincoln, Mrs. Hayes and Mrs. Gar
field Were Broken In On q p.
Social Etiquette.
Women Trying to Initiate Mrs. Cleveland
"A Variety Theater Sensation =.
Closing the Saloons. . 81

! congress are learning their nrSt lessons
in the etiquette of capital society. They
have begun to understand that they are
expected to call first upon the wives of
senators and all other officers
having superior rank to that
held by their husbands. Cabinet
officers and their first assistants
Outrank the congressman, as do also the
| justices of the supreme court. Hence,
the ladies who belong to the wives of
of congressman always are obliged to
make the first calls and introduce them
selves, or be introduced. This is an en-
barrassing thing, but it always has been
so, and will continue to be the mode in
this city. After awile, when the first
season is over, or when the firStneSS of
the first season has worn off and
gotten shredded out at the elbows,
the ladies will not mind it very
much; but, during the frstness and
newness of the first season, no one
knows how much gall and NORWOOD
are swallowed in upper circles amongst
those who determine to swell in the
armament of social Washington. But,
| excepting the ladies of the White
! house, all are obliged to go through the
same experience. Even Mrs. Hayes,
| and Mrs. Garfield, and Mrs. Lincoln,
and others of their predecessors once
had to go through the breaking-in pro-
| cess in society, where they afterwards
reigned and shone. Mrs. Hayes is re-
| garded, and was and always will be re-
garded, as one of the sweetest enter
tanners at the public receptions, the
| most WlnSOme within the memory of the
| oldest ladies in the city. She certainly
was as remarkably we'll fitted for her
| position as her husband was untitled for
his. Mrs. Cleveland, of course, is con-
and she easily bears her hon.
Ors. During her absence in New
York. Connecticut, and other places
her apartments are being put in extra
fine order. She will live in the White
house nearly all winter, and until the
weather commences to get real warm
next April, and then she will return to
Oak View, to her mamma, Growers
superior Step-mother. Mrs. Folsom is
seldom heard of now. for the reason
that she is of an exceedingly retiring
disposition anyway; and because she
takes infinite delight in seeing Frances
so well filling her niche in social history.
! When there is reception, Mrs. Folsom
may always be seen sitting back of her
daughter, almost out of sight, but watch
ing every graceful movement of Miss
! Frances, and listening eagerly to every
word she utters. Her face is seemingly
unmOved, yet there is in the flush of her
! cheeks and the brightness of her eve
token of the pride she feels. She is I'M
doubleday good mother, as she is an
atfectionate one; and they do say, also,
| that she is superb mOther-in-laW.
INITIATING MRS. CLEVELAND.
Girls with Chicago feet still stalk the
! avenue and tramp up and down the
! stairs at the theaters, wearing their
! funny wOrSted hats, all in imitation of
Mrs. Cleveland, and whom they cannot
initiate. 1t is like painting the lily and
! gliding the gold, for the Washing
| ton girls, with their Chicago feet and
st. Louis mouths, to try to look like
| Frances, of Buffalo, either in headgear
| or footwear. But the monkey-like and
! parrot-like girls of this social dumping
| ground will play mimic. This city is
! like an old vacant lot in the suburbs,
onto which all the refuse of the neigh
bOrhOOd is carted and dropped. In
| Western cities occasionally there is to
be seen lady who will turn around in
the street to look at what woman has
on her back. A of that class of women
come to Washington to enter society.
Consequently, the majority of the
girls on the avenue are walking
backward most of the time, and this
afternoon one of them showed her New
York hustle right into the abdominal
bay window of the fat little correspond
ent of a Chicago paper, and then planted
her Chicago shoe upon his favOrite corn,
all before anyone could interfere. Just
as the injured little man was commence
ing to swear, the maiden opened her st.
| Louis mouth and uttered a roar at him
for being in her way. Some people
thought it was ludicrOuS, and others had
opinions like those which ST. Paul had
when he was caught up into the third
Minneapolis and heard things which it
was not lawful for him to mutter or
twitter. The injured man, however
will most likely write screed and give
it to the world concerning his various
instantaneous sensations when cOlliding
with creature made up in that manner.
A PICNIC FOR BAIDHEADS.
The old variety theater on Eleventh
street has done the greatest bald-headed
mems work this week that has ever
been known in the nude branch of the
atricals. Ladies with forms more beati-
tic than the mugwump form divine,
have been canterIng and capering over
the boards to the laScivious blessings of
the trombone. Non-capillary heads
have glistened in the front row and
mammarial glands have affiliated like
so much immaculate jelly in consonace
with the Sylph-like movements of their
owners. One of the funny things at
this variety theater has been the advent
of great big dOuble-bTeaSted woman,
dragging crOsS-eyed. two legged little
boy by the hair of his head, and spank
ing his tattered breeches, in their most
baggy portion, with well-worn green
umbrella, and all because he had stood
on the corner md called to his fellow
gamins. LUX at de false-face on de
queen. pardy." The charcoal colOred
audiences did most heartily enlaugh
Themselves at the homelikeneSs of the
play, and the manager of the place did
tickle his ribs meath the fifth intercostal
cartilages, when the receipts were
counted.
TEMPERANCE GAINING GROUND.
The ladies of the WOman's Christian
Temerance union are jubilant over their
successes this year. The Sixth street
entrance to the bar room of the National
hotel is closed. No license could be
procured on that side of the street. The
property owners on the other side of
the street were so influenced that they
refused to sign. Hence, the door is
closed. But the saloon is still open. of 1
course. The people on the PennSylva-
MIA avenue side consented to have the
rum mill located there, and Bachhus
won victory. During the next year
the ladies will devote special attention
to this bar room, which is now growing
! because it has at least one door open to
the public, even if one is closed. De-
Alleys saloon, on the avenue and near
the ''Division," that famous resort of
all that is vile and low in womanhood,
is also closed. There is lot of victory
in the air and the ladies of the union